“If I zoom out of that picture, you say ‘Oh, that’s coach Pierce,’ ” Pierce said. “When you zoom in, you have to think about it. And if you’re not even thinking about it, you just see a black man, then I’m in trouble. And at the end of the day, I may not be the Atlanta head coach down the line, or whenever that comes to an end, but I’ll always be a black man. So, I carry that all the time.”